The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers

CONTENTS

	Foreword: The Ego in the Essay	v
I.	The Joys of Being a Woman	1
II.	A Man in the House	23
III.	Old-Clothes Sensations	29
IV.	Luggage and the Lady	35
V.	Detached Thoughts on Boarding	49
VI.	The Lady Alone at Night	62
VII.	In Sickness and in Health	68
VIII.	An Educational Fantasy	75
IX.	My Clothes	87
X.	The Tendency to Testify	107
XI.	Letters and Letter-Writers	113
XII.	The Tyranny of Talent	124
XIII.	The Woman Who Writes	129
XIV.	Picnic Pictures	154
XV.	The Farm Feminine	171
XVI.	A Little Girl and Her Grandmother	183
XVII.	The Wayfaring Woman	194
XVIII.	The Road That Talked	205
XIX.	My Mother’s Gardeners	214
XX.	My Little Town	227
XXI.	Genus Clericum	244
XXII.	Some Difficulties in Doing without Eternity	264

Note.—Several of these essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The North American Review, The Unpopular Review, and The Churchman, and are here reprinted with the kind permission of the editors of those magazines.

The Joys of Being a Woman

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